AT DVB World, Eutelsat and Vestel have announced the commercial launch of their Smart TV supporting the enhanced UX features of Sat.tv Connect. Leveraging the DVB-I and HbbTV standards, the new range of Smart TVs from provides an enhanced user experience, with dynamic installation of channel lists and an advanced Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) displaying […]
SLR, the Service List Registry, has joined the DVB Project to develop and promote the adoption of its international solution to the problem of audiovisual media service discovery. The unified service platform is based on open standards to enable simple service selection on any screen. The registry is designed to allow media providers to announce […]
DVB has released a new set of guidelines to support the implementation of accessibility measures in DVB-I services. Published as DVB BlueBook A185, these guidelines set out the mechanisms for signalling accessibility services in DVB-I, enabling better support for features such as subtitles, audio description, and sign language interpretation. Future revisions of the document will […]
Kineton, a provider of technology solutions, in collaboration with the Digital TV Group (DTG), has announced the integration of the DTG DVB-I Test Suite into the Kineton MediaCert platform. This integration is being officially unveiled at IBC. The DVB-I Test Suite enables manufacturers to validate the correct implementation of the DVB-I specification on connected TVs […]
The DVB Steering Board has approved the publication of an update to DVB’s Targeted Advertising specifications as well as commercial requirements for the addition of a new CDN-related functionality to DVB-I and DVB-DASH. Both documents are available from the DVB specification library as BlueBooks. DVB’s specifications for Targeted Advertising come in three parts. DVB-TA Part […]
Verance, a provider of standards-based watermarking, today announced its demonstration of the integration of Verance Aspect watermarking technology into the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) ecosystem. This demo, taking place at the 2024 DVB World Conference (exhibition area, booth number 6), features content and interactive applications from leading German broadcasters ARD, RTL Deutschland and ZDF. […]
A DVB study mission on energy-aware service delivery and consumption has delivered its final report, published as DVB BlueBook S100. Its central recommendation is to create a dedicated working group that will help to ensure energy efficiency is taken into account in the future development of DVB specifications. The study mission on Energy-Aware service Delivery and […]
The General Assembly of the DVB Project has elected a new Steering Board to serve for the coming two years. It includes representatives of 43 companies across DVB’s four member constituencies. The companies represented on the DVB Steering Board 2023–2025 are as follows: Manufacturers / software suppliers: Ateme, Dolby, Enensys, Ericsson, Fraunhofer IIS, HiSilicon, InterDigital, […]
The DVB-I Pilot Germany – an initiative consisting of 21 stakeholders from the media industry, including broadcasters, device manufacturers, software providers and research institutions – has announced the successful completion of Phase 1. From September 2022 to March 2023, a proof-of-concept was realised to develop a common view on the technical features of the DVB-I […]
The second phase of DVB’s work on next-generation video codecs (NGVC) will focus on delivering an enhanced service that builds on an existing base service in a manner that is more efficient than simulcast. Such an enhanced service would upgrade the base service to a significantly better experience, for example increasing spatial resolution, temporal resolution, […]